Take a number: 69.6 million

The number of millennials and Generation Xers who voted in the 2016 presidential election made up a majority of voters, while baby boomers and older Americans were less than a majority for the first time in decades, according to the Pew Research Center. And it reported Monday that by 2020, it’s entirely possible that more millennials (those 18 to 35 last year) will outnumber Gen Xers (those aged 36 to 51). That didn’t quite happen in 2016, even though there are more millennials in the overall population. Last year, 35.7 million Gen Xers cast ballots, compared to 34 million millennials. This trend is bad news for Republicans, Pew says, because millennials tend to be more Democratic and independent than older generations. In 2016, 55 percent of millennials identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents. That more liberal politics is true in California, where many millennials were left out of the economic recovery. – Foon Rhee,@foonrhee

Their take

Miami Herald: President Trump has yet to execute a solid, grounded foreign policy, as opposed to the kind he favors based on personal contact, deal making, and tweeting on a whim. These have yet to make America more secure.

The Mercury News: It’s as if North Korean President Kim Jong Un is doing one of those Verizon commercials repeatedly asking the rest of the world: “Can you hear me now?” If there was any doubt before, the answer now that North Korea has successfully test fired a missile capable of reaching the interior of the United States is, “Oh yes, we hear you now. And we don’t like what we are hearing.” Time is running out for diplomacy.

The Salt Lake Tribune: Provo Mayor John Curtis, running to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, promises a search for reasonable, worked-out solutions to such seemingly intractable problems as immigration, health care and public lands. As a congressman, Curtis would give his constituents every reason to hope for a process that takes all views into account and resists the temptation to score partisan points.